Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1887-09-22
CONDENSED NEWS or THE DAY.

CONDENSED NEWS. or THE DAY.
Five persons were drowned in Lake Ge-
heva yesterday.
The Tonauin finances show q deficit OF
10000, 600 francs.
Mrs Cleveland denies that she snubbed
Gov Foraker at Philadelphia.
Francis D. Eaines, the piano manu-
facturer died at New York, aged % years.
Robert Wason, ex-chief OF police OF
Milwaukee, died at Granville, Wis, OF
cancer
A deal between the socialists and
united labor parties Of New York is
talked of.
The Caroline and Pelew islands are in
state Of siege on account OF rebelllous
manifestations of the natives
p. Chamberlain, Minneapolis lawyer,
leaped from third-story window and
was instantly killed, Tuesday.
Fourteen proposals were received for
building the new court house at Winona,
ranging from $105,000 to $1O7, 900.
Harry Woodson, known as the Black
Diamond. was shot and killed in Chicago
by Thomas j. White in self-defenee.
James Dolan and William Banks, Of
Wyandotte, Mich, laid down on the rail
road tracks to sleep, and both were Killed
by a train.
At Wichita, Kan, the chief of police
shot and killed A. II. Ford, of Texas,
aged II. The boy was endeavoring to es-
cape arrest.
Italians celebrated the anniversary of
| the entrance of the italian troops into
Rome in St. Paul and in several eastern
cities Tuesday.
In Berlin On Friday and Saturday last
| some women unobserved by the police
distributed $4,000 socialist pamphlets
about the streets Of the city.
The following Minnesotans were grant
ed pensions On Tuesday: Original-Rob
ert c. Eagles, Minneapolis. Reissue
John S. Stops, Shingle Creek.
David Knight, Baptist minister of
Caldwell county, North Carolina, has
deserted his wife and twelve children
and eloped with his mother-in-law.
Bishop Perry, of Davenport, Iowa, who
has recently been elected to the bishopric
of Nova Scotia, and who is now in Eng
land, has sent a letter declining the post.
Official statistic estimates that 800 fam
lilies have been made destitute by the re-
cent floods Of the Nile, and that property
has been damaged to the extent Of $780,,
900.
The rumor of wreck on the Atlantic
G. Pacific railroad in Arizona, in which
fifty people were said to have been killed
or injured, proves to be without founda-
ton.
Rumor says that Jay Gould has been
trying for some time to retire from active
business, but he is SO bound up by his
various interests that he finds it impos-
sible.
The sale of oriental railways by Baron
Hirsch to the Ottoman bank syndicate
hangs fire, pending an adjustment of GER
tain differences between the baron and
the porte.
An accident on the Duluth, South Shore
& Atlantic road did considerable damage,
and injured Robert Gurney. One on the
Pennsylvania road injured three brake
men fatally.
A washout ON the Louisville & Nash
vile, caused by steady east winds forcing
the waters of the gulf uyp Lake Ponchar-
train, has caused considerable damage
and delayed trains.
A movement is on foot among Chicago
sports to bring together in a tournament
at cushion caroms the six leading experts
Of America. 1t is proposed to add a GER
tain amount of money.
Should Detroit win the championship
this season it VIII be the fourth city that
has borne off the prize since the league
was formed-Boston, Chicago and Provi-
dence being the other three.
Extensive arrangements are being made
IT. DE-, law fo~ f1,n -
Cardinal Gibbons when he arrives there =
in October to confer the pallium on
Archbishop Green, of Oregon.
w. G. Patterson, private in the Ken
lucky militia, has been fined $500 and
sent to Jail for ninety days for deserting
his company while it was on duty at
Morehead, during the recent troubles.
A meeting OF the coal exchange of Chi
cago was held, and the following prices
were adopted: 81 per ton for large egg
and $7.25 per ton for all other sizes. The
advance was the inevitable sequence of
increase ordered last week at the East.
Fred Werner, a farmer living near
New Hampden, Iowa. was attacked while
returning from a neighbours by John and
Joseph Fraulzer, and beaten over the
head with club until knocked senseless.
Western railway managers have come
to the conclusion that railway building
in the west has been greatly overdone.
The prospect now is that comparatively
little in the way Of new construction will
be undertaken next year.
A company has been formed at Grand
Rapids. with a capital of $1,000, 900, to
develop the old Metropolitan iron mine,
which was abandoned in 1873. The COR
porators have the option on the property,
and expect 70 make a = barrel Of money!
4 party headed by Senator ]. X Graves
OF Dubuque, Iowa, has left Sturgis for
the coal fields on Hay creek, on q tour of
inspection. The trip viii take ten days,
and it is expected that valuable informa-
ton Will be derived regarding the coal
deposits Of Dakota.
Winnipeg people are becoming suspi-
ciouS of Norquay and think his continued
absence al indication that he is makinga
deal with the Dominion government. He
has now been absent two months, and SO
far as known here has accomplished moth
ing towards the floating of the provincial
bonds.
The Cncomphagre Mining company
has been dissolved. Henry l.. Caldwell
has been appointed receiver by an order
of Judge Donohue in the supreme court.
The company has two mining claims, the
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